ISRAEL, LEBANON REACH ‘HISTORIC AGREEMENT’ ON MARITIME BORDERS

Tue 11 October 2022: Israeli and Lebanese negotiators claim to have reached a “historic” agreement to resolve a prolonged maritime border dispute in the gas-rich Mediterranean Sea. After delivering President Michel Aoun the deal’s final draft on Wednesday, Lebanon’s deputy speaker Elias Bou Saab declared that a compromise had been reached that satisfies both parties. […]

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4,000 CHARGED IN GOV’T CRACKDOWN: BANGLADESH OPPOSITION

Tue 11 October 2022: The opposition claims that thousands of party members have been accused of violent crimes in Bangladesh as part of a massive crackdown by the authorities, which has raised the concern of a well-known human rights organization. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s detractors have staged protests across the nation in recent months over […]

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BIDEN CONDEMNS “PUTIN’S ILLEGAL WAR ON THE UKRAINIAN PEOPLE” AFTER MISSILE STRIKE

Mon 10 October 2022: Russian missile strikes on Ukrainian cities, US President Joe Biden said Monday, “demonstrate the utter brutality” of Russian leader Vladimir Putin’s “illegal war.” “The United States strongly condemns Russia’s missile strikes today across Ukraine,” Biden said in a statement. “These attacks killed and injured civilians and destroyed targets with no military purpose,” he […]

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IRAN SECURITY FORCES INTENSIFY CRACKDOWN AS SOME OIL WORKERS REPORTEDLY JOIN PROTESTS

Mon 10 October 2022: Iranian security forces intensified a crackdown on anti-government protests in several Kurdish cities on Monday, social media posts and videos showed, pressing efforts to quell unrest ignited by the death of a woman in morality police custody, Reuters reports. Protests have swept Iran since Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old from Iran’s Kurdish region, died on […]

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PUTIN WARNS “IF ATTACKS CONTINUE AGAINST RUSSIA, THE RESPONSE WILL BE HARSH” (VIDEO)

Mon 10 October 2022: Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, has warned that the country will respond militarily strongly to any additional “terrorist” attacks from Ukraine on its soil. According to the media, he was speaking following the missile attack on Ukraine on Monday morning. Putin admitted that Russian forces had “massive strikes with long-range precision weapons […]

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NOBEL PRIZE IN ECONOMICS 2022 AWARDED TO BEN BERNANKE, DOUGLAS DIAMOND, AND PHILIP DYBVIG

Mon 10 October 2022: The 2022 Nobel Prize in Economics was given to Douglas W. Diamond, Philip H. Dybvig, and Ben S. Bernanke. The group’s study on banks and financial crises earned them the esteemed prize. The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel is the official name of the honor. […]

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BRITAIN MUST CRACK DOWN ON HINDUTVA EXTREMISM, OR EXPECT MORE INTERCOMMUNITY CONFLICT

Mon 10 October 2022: If any month in 2022 succeeded in further uniting far-right extremists in Europe, Israel and India in a herd mentality, it would be September, when the English city of Leicester witnessed clashes between young Hindu and Muslim men following a series of attacks against the Muslim community by hundreds of violent […]

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MALAYSIA PM SABRI DISSOLVES PARLIAMENT, PAVING WAY FOR EARLY VOTE

Mon 10 October 2022: On Monday, Malaysian Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob dissolved parliament, paving the way for national elections in the coming weeks, Reuters reported. The election commission will announce the date of the election, Ismail said in a televised address. An election must be held within 60 days of parliament’s dissolution. Ismail said […]

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